Patents by Inventor Masatoshi Okumura
Masatoshi Okumura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11925027Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a memory array including first and second bit lines and a sense amplifier circuit. The sense amplifier circuit includes a first sense amplifier array containing first active sense amplifier transistors that each have an active region having a first width, where the first active sense amplifier transistors are electrically connected to the first bit lines, and a second sense amplifier array including second active sense amplifier transistors that each have the active region having the first width, where the second active sense amplifier transistors are electrically connected to the second bit lines, and dummy active regions which are electrically inactive located between columns of the second active sense amplifier transistors.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Takuma Takimoto, Masayuki Hiroi, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Masatoshi Okumura
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Publication number: 20230209832Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a memory array including first and second bit lines and a sense amplifier circuit. The sense amplifier circuit includes a first sense amplifier array containing first active sense amplifier transistors that each have an active region having a first width, where the first active sense amplifier transistors are electrically connected to the first bit lines, and a second sense amplifier array including second active sense amplifier transistors that each have the active region having the first width, where the second active sense amplifier transistors are electrically connected to the second bit lines, and dummy active regions which are electrically inactive located between columns of the second active sense amplifier transistors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Takuma TAKIMOTO, Masayuki HIROI, Hiroyuki OGAWA, Masatoshi OKUMURA
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Patent number: 9963006Abstract: A damper control device controls a damping force of each damper interposed between a vehicle body and a corresponding one of a plurality of vehicle wheels of a vehicle. The damper control device includes: a good wavy road control calculation unit that obtains, for each damper, a good wavy road control instruction suitable for a good wavy road representing a wavy road surface; a bad wavy road control calculation unit that obtains, for each damper, a bad wavy road control instruction suitable for a bad wavy road that has more concavities and convexities than the good wavy road; and a final instruction calculation unit that obtains a final control instruction for each damper based on the good wavy road control instruction and on the bad wavy road control instruction.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: KYB CorporationInventors: Tomoo Kubota, Masatoshi Okumura
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Publication number: 20170297399Abstract: An object is to provide a signal processing device capable of reducing a sudden change in the rate of change of an output signal at the time of switching between two signals. In the signal processing device, when a signal of a larger value is selected, a smoothing signal is generated based on the deviation between two signals such that the smoothing signal has a value larger than the values of the two signals between two points at which the smoothing signal intersects the two signals, or when a signal of a smaller value is selected, the smoothing signal is generated based on the deviation between two signals such that the smoothing signal has a value smaller than the values of the two signals between two points at which the smoothing signal intersects the two signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: KYB CorporationInventors: Tomoo KUBOTA, Masatoshi OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20170297400Abstract: Provided is a damper control device that exerts appropriate damping force to improve ride quality in a vehicle even when the vehicle gets over a projection on a road surface, the damper control device including a correction unit that corrects the damping force of a damper based on information from which a temporal variation amount of a damper velocity of the damper can be grasped and level information from which a damping force characteristic level that is the magnitude of a damping force characteristic of the damper can be grasped. The damper control device can suppress occurrence of distortion in a characteristic of transmission damping force regardless of the magnitude of the damping force characteristic level, and does not cause a lack of the damping force by reducing the damping force more than necessary when the damping force characteristic level is small.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: KYB CorporationInventors: Tomoo KUBOTA, Masatoshi OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20170267048Abstract: A signal processing apparatus (20) is a signal processing apparatus for a suspension control apparatus and includes a first determination unit (41). The first determination unit (41) is configured to select any one of a plurality of detection signals including information regarding unsprung vibrations of a first wheel, which are acquired from a plurality of sensors mounted on a vehicle, and determine unsprung vibrations of the first wheel on the basis of the selected one detection signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Tomoo Kubota, Masatoshi Okumura
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Publication number: 20170267049Abstract: [Object] To provide a suspension control apparatus, a suspension control method, and a program, by which unsprung vibrations or sprung vibrations of each wheel can be efficiently suppressed. [Solving Means] A suspension control apparatus (20) includes a signal generator (40) and a control unit (50). The signal generator (40) generates a first state signal regarding unsprung vibrations of a first wheel and a second state signal regarding unsprung vibrations of a second wheel. The control unit (50) generates, on the basis of the first and second state signals, a control signal for mutually and cooperatively controlling a first damper mounted on the first wheel and a second damper mounted on the second wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: September 21, 2017Inventors: Tomoo Kubota, Masatoshi Okumura
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Patent number: 9718324Abstract: A damper control device includes a speed conversion unit configured to convert a damper speed to a control damper speed, and if the damper is accelerating, the damper speed is converted so that signs of the control damper speed and the damper speed accord with each other and an absolute value of the control damper speed becomes an absolute value of the damper speed or more, and if the damper is decelerating, the damper speed is converted so that the signs of the control damper speed and the damper speed accord with each other and the absolute value of the control damper speed becomes the absolute value of the damper speed or less, and a damping force of the damper is controlled by using the control damper speed.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: KYB CorporationInventors: Tomoo Kubota, Masatoshi Okumura
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Publication number: 20170166028Abstract: A signal level detection device 1 and a signal level detection method according to a means for solving a problem of the present invention varies a cut-off frequency ?c, of a variable low-pass filter 3 which filters a signal level r. The cut-off frequency ?c is varied based on the signal level r or information referred to for estimating the signal level. The signal level detection device 1 and the signal level detection method therefore reduce a delay of a rise of the obtained signal level r from an actual signal level, and sufficiently remove noise superimposed on the signal level r even when the signal level r is extremely low. Accordingly, control performance improves regardless of a degree of the signal level r.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: KYB CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoo KUBOTA, Masatoshi OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20170158015Abstract: A damper speed calculation unit 42 reads a suspension displacement and performs a differential operation on it, to thereby calculate a damper speed. This differential operating characteristic includes a gain characteristic having a gradient larger than a gradient of a gain characteristic of an exact differential in an unsprung resonance frequency region. With this, the phase delay is suppressed and the control performance is enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2015Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Tomoo Kubota, Masatoshi Okumura
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Patent number: 9452656Abstract: A damper control apparatus damps vibration of an unsprung member by controlling a damping force of a damper in a vehicle, the damper being interposed between a sprung member and the unsprung member. The damper control apparatus includes a vibration level detecting unit that detects a vibration level serving as a magnitude of the vibration of the unsprung member, and a stroke speed detecting unit that detects a stroke speed of the damper. The damper control apparatus further includes a command value calculating unit that determines a control command value, the control command value is a command value for controlling the damping force of the damper on the basis of the vibration level of the unsprung member and the stroke speed of the damper.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: KYB CorporationInventors: Tomoo Kubota, Masatoshi Okumura
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Patent number: 9428026Abstract: A damper control device controls vibration of an unsprung member by controlling a damping force of a damper interposed between a sprung member and the unsprung member of a vehicle on the basis of a damping property prepared in advance. The damper control device includes a correction unit that extracts a sprung resonant frequency component of a stroke velocity of the damper, and corrects a damping force target value of the damper on the basis of the extracted above-spring resonant frequency component.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: KYB CorporationInventors: Tomoo Kubota, Masatoshi Okumura
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Publication number: 20160243916Abstract: A damper control device includes a vibration level detection unit configured to detect a vibration level of the unsprung member, and a control unit configured to control the damping force characteristics of the damper by obtaining a control instruction, the control instruction determining the damping force characteristics on the basis of the vibration level detected by the vibration level detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2014Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: KYB CorporationInventors: Tomoo KUBOTA, Masatoshi OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20160202112Abstract: A signal level detection device includes a signal generation unit configured to generate a plurality of level calculation signals that are out of phase with one another by using an input original signal, and a signal level computation unit configured to obtain the signal level based on the original signal and two or more of the level calculation signals, or based on three or more of the level calculation signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: KYB CorporationInventors: Tomoo KUBOTA, Masatoshi OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20160052360Abstract: A damper control device includes a speed conversion unit configured to convert a damper speed to a control damper speed, and if the damper is accelerating, the damper speed is converted so that signs of the control damper speed and the damper speed accord with each other and an absolute value of the control damper speed becomes an absolute value of the damper speed or more, and if the damper is decelerating, the damper speed is converted so that the signs of the control damper speed and the damper speed accord with each other and the absolute value of the control damper speed becomes the absolute value of the damper speed or less, and a damping force of the damper is controlled by using the control damper speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2014Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: KAYABA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoo KUBOTA, Masatoshi OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20160031286Abstract: A damper control apparatus damps vibration of an unsprung member by controlling a damping force of a damper in a vehicle, the damper being interposed between a sprung member and the unsprung member. The damper control apparatus includes a vibration level detecting unit that detects a vibration level serving as a magnitude of the vibration of the unsprung member, and a stroke speed detecting unit that detects a stroke speed of the damper. The damper control apparatus further includes a command value calculating unit that determines a control command value, the control command value is a command value for controlling the damping force of the damper on the basis of the vibration level of the unsprung member and the stroke speed of the damper.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2014Publication date: February 4, 2016Applicant: KAYABA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoo KUBOTA, Masatoshi OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20150367702Abstract: A damper control device controls a damping force of each damper interposed between a vehicle body and a corresponding one of a plurality of vehicle wheels of a vehicle. The damper control device includes: a good wavy road control calculation unit that obtains, for each damper, a good wavy road control instruction suitable for a good wavy road representing a wavy road surface; a bad wavy road control calculation unit that obtains, for each damper, a bad wavy road control instruction suitable for a bad wavy road that has more concavities and convexities than the good wavy road; and a final instruction calculation unit that obtains a final control instruction for each damper based on the good wavy road control instruction and on the bad wavy road control instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: KAYABA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoo KUBOTA, Masatoshi OKUMURA
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Publication number: 20150367703Abstract: A damper control device controls vibration of an unsprung member by controlling a damping force of a damper interposed between a sprung member and the unsprung member of a vehicle on the basis of a damping property prepared in advance. The damper control device includes a correction unit that extracts a sprung resonant frequency component of a stroke velocity of the damper, and corrects a damping force target value of the damper on the basis of the extracted above-spring resonant frequency component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: KAYABA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoo KUBOTA, Masatoshi OKUMURA
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Patent number: 4560526Abstract: A process for preparing a molded silicon carbide product, by molding a mixture of silicon carbide powder, an organosilicon compound and one or more lubricants to form a compact and sintering the thus-formed compact, is described.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1984Date of Patent: December 24, 1985Assignee: Shin Nisso Kako Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masatoshi Okumura
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Patent number: 4259225Abstract: A colored polyvinyl chloride paste composition comprising(A) a polyvinyl chloride paste, and(B) a powdery coloring agent comprising (1) a pigment and (2) a monomeric ester of an aromatic carboxylic acid, said ester containing 1 to 6 ester bonds (--COO--) in the molecule and having a melting point of at least 40.degree. C.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1979Date of Patent: March 31, 1981Assignee: Dainippon Ink & Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Isamu Saito, Koshiki Aoyagi, Masatoshi Okumura, Masayoshi Banba, Naoki Shibahara